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The Aristocrats

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The Aristocrats	label	The Aristocrats
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The Aristocrats	comment	Few comedians truly tell jokes. A proper joke seldom fits the format and atmosphere of stand-up comedy, and jokes end as soon as the audience knows the punchline. One joke prevails over all others, however: The Aristocrats, a joke comedians keep back to tell each other (or themselves, as a warm-up act). The details of the joke change with every telling (and who tells it), but the basic structure remains the same no matter what: A family act goes in to see a talent agent. While the agent doesn't want to hear them out (because he considers family acts too cute), the father finally convinces him to give them a chance. The comedian telling the joke describes the family's act in as much detail as they prefer. Sometimes, the father tells the agent a blow-by-blow description of the act, while other times, the family performs it live for the agent. The act always involves the family performing shocking, heinous, risqué, disgusting, and downright illegal acts. At the completion of the description, the shocked agent can only ask what the family calls their act. The father proudly replies, "The Aristocrats!" In the past, the joke served as a form of satire about the upper class, but that take doesn't really apply these days; in modern times, it's not particularly funny as a joke anymore (since it's essentially a "Shaggy Dog" Story with a weak bit of irony as the punchline). The real point of the joke these days involves the description of the act itself: anyone who tells the joke must cross the line as many times and in as many directions as humanly possible. Most comedians traditionally invent the act on the spot as they tell the joke, which turns it into an improv comedy exercise. Standard ingredients for the description of the act include incest, paedophilia, rape, death (the messier the better), torture, necrophilia, coprophilia, and urophilianote Getting turned on by shit and piss, respectively, bodily fluids, bestiality, and pretty much every vile sex act and fetish one can think of — and every horrific act of violence, depravity, and otherwise immoral human behavior that nobody wants to think of. Extra-risqué versions will also try to work in offensive political themes on top of everything, such as racism, blasphemy, sexism, homophobia, etc. (like the family insisting on including blackface and minstrel songs into the act). A variation upon the joke leaves the act completely tame, but gives it a shockingly disgusting name. There is also a documentary for the jokes released in 2005. Do not confuse with The Aristocats.note Humorously enough, the documentary has a segment in which comedians discuss making that mistake.
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The Aristocrats / int_148e222c	type	Crosses the Line Twice
The Aristocrats / int_148e222c	comment	Crosses the Line Twice: Invoked with prejudice.
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The Aristocrats / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Aristocrats / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Given the amount of depravity inherent in the body of the joke, this is to be expected. Gilbert Gottfried, however, takes it up a notch, as he does with most of his material.
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The Aristocrats / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
The Aristocrats / int_4c851777	comment	Black Comedy Rape: In some tellings.
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The Aristocrats / int_4fff0dfe	type	Sarcasm-Blind
The Aristocrats / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: In some versions, the disbelieving agent says "What the hell would you call an act like that?", meaning the punchline is this trope.
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The Aristocrats / int_68f81ea8	type	Real-Person Fic
The Aristocrats / int_68f81ea8	comment	In the Real-Person Fic "Enter Backstage", Robert Sean Leonard, of all people, tells a puppet-centric version of this joke to some of the rest of the House cast.
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The Aristocrats / int_83b464fb	type	Straight Man
The Aristocrats / int_83b464fb	comment	Straight Man: The talent agent that witnesses and responds to the depraved acts before him.
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The Aristocrats / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The Aristocrats / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: A straight example of this trope, if the punchline isn't treated as ironic.
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The Aristocrats / int_9942bfab	type	Rimshot
The Aristocrats / int_9942bfab	comment	He also references it (again followed by a Rimshot) in his review of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, when mocking the mother's over-the-top scream:
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The Aristocrats / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Aristocrats / int_bef696dd	comment	At one point in the major Mind Screw that is SCP-3999's article, a version of this is given as the containment procedure for SCP-3999, one of many nonsensical procedures listed. Rather than being offensive, it's recursive; characters play each other acting out the introduction to the joke, going deeper and deeper until SCP-3999 seems to force the chain to abruptly stop, ending with a splash of Word-Salad Horror.
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The Aristocrats / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Aristocrats / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: Although calling the acts 'decadent' may be an understatement.
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The Aristocrats / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
The Aristocrats / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: It's common to engage in this to ramp up the shock factor even more.
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The Aristocrats / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
The Aristocrats / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: As pointed out by Gilbert Gottfried in the film about it, realistically, family services and the police would've been called the second the act started happening.
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